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Announcing pulse-0.2.0

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I just released a new version of pulse. Pulse adds an action to your rails project that can be used for external health checking. The most common use is by a...

Automatically merge changes from branch to trunk

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On my current project, we release code often. As a result, we usually have at least one active branch along with the trunk. When bugs arise in production, we...

Do not trust irb exit status

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Notice this strange behavior with exit status and irb. The $? variable holds the exit status of the last command.

Useful unix tricks - part 2

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Update (2/20/09): Check out Useful unix tricks – part 3 and Useful unix tricks – part 4